Petroleum Engineering Manager

• Develop and implement petroleum engineering strategies aligned with asset objectives, production targets, recovery goals, economic requirements, and organizational priorities.
• Lead petroleum engineering activities across exploration, appraisal, development, production, mature-field optimization, and asset life-cycle management.
• Manage multidisciplinary petroleum engineering teams and coordinate activities across reservoir, production, drilling, completions, geoscience, facilities, and operations functions.
• Develop and optimize field development plans, reservoir management strategies, production forecasts, well development programs, and recovery strategies.
• Evaluate reservoir performance using production data, pressure data, well-test results, material balance, simulation studies, surveillance data, and other relevant technical information.
• Lead production optimization initiatives to improve well performance, field production, recovery factor, operating efficiency, and asset value.
• Evaluate well performance and identify opportunities for workovers, recompletions, stimulation, artificial lift optimization, infill drilling, sidetracks, and other production-enhancement activities.
• Support well planning, well placement, completion strategies, and development sequencing from a petroleum engineering perspective.
• Conduct reservoir and production engineering studies to assess field performance, development options, reserves, recovery mechanisms, and production constraints.
• Develop and maintain production forecasts, reserves estimates, development scenarios, economic evaluations, and long-term field-performance models.
• Lead reservoir management and enhanced oil recovery initiatives where applicable, including water injection, gas injection, miscible injection, chemical EOR, and other recovery techniques.
• Collaborate with Geoscience teams to integrate geological, geophysical, petrophysical, reservoir, and production data into field-development decisions.
• Work closely with Drilling and Completions teams to optimize well design, completion strategy, drilling sequence, and development economics.
• Collaborate with Operations and Facilities teams to identify production constraints and develop solutions to improve facility and well-system performance.
• Review and approve petroleum engineering studies, technical reports, production forecasts, reservoir models, development plans, and engineering recommendations.
• Evaluate new field-development concepts, redevelopment opportunities, acquisition opportunities, farm-in/farm-out proposals, and other petroleum investment opportunities.
• Support reserves and resources evaluations in accordance with applicable industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Develop economic models and technical-commercial evaluations for drilling programs, development projects, workovers, production optimization initiatives, and recovery projects.
• Monitor production performance against approved budgets, forecasts, development plans, reserves expectations, and operational targets.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators covering production, recovery, reserves, well performance, drilling success, operating efficiency, costs, and asset value.
• Identify technical, operational, commercial, reservoir, production, and subsurface risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Maintain comprehensive petroleum engineering databases, production forecasts, well-performance records, reserves documentation, field-development plans, technical studies, and risk registers.
• Ensure petroleum engineering activities comply with applicable technical standards, regulatory requirements, company policies, HSE requirements, and industry best practices.
• Engage with joint venture partners, national oil companies, regulators, technical consultants, service companies, and other external stakeholders as required.
• Provide technical leadership during field reviews, development reviews, reserves reviews, technical assurance activities, and investment decision processes.
• Prepare technical presentations, investment recommendations, development proposals, performance reports, and executive-level recommendations.

Performance will be measured through a combination of technical, operational, production, reserves, and commercial KPIs, including:

• Production target achievement
• Production growth
• Recovery factor improvement
• Reserves replacement and growth
• Well productivity
• Production forecast accuracy
• Field-development plan performance
• Drilling and completion success
• Production optimization gains
• Workover and intervention performance
• Artificial lift performance
• Operating cost efficiency
• Development capital efficiency
• Reservoir management performance
• Enhanced oil recovery performance
• Asset value and economic return
• Technical risk reduction
• HSE and regulatory compliance

The successful candidate should have strong experience in petroleum engineering, reservoir engineering, production engineering, field development, asset management, or a related upstream oil and gas discipline.

across conventional oil and gas, offshore, onshore, mature fields, unconventional resources, enhanced oil recovery, or integrated field-development environments would be advantageous.

The candidate should have strong technical knowledge combined with leadership, economic evaluation, project management, and multidisciplinary decision-making capabilities.

working across the Middle East, GCC, or UAE oil and gas sector is highly desirable.

• Proven experience in petroleum engineering, reservoir engineering, production engineering, or integrated asset management.
• Strong understanding of reservoir and production performance.
• Experience developing field-development plans and production strategies.
• Strong knowledge of well performance, well intervention, artificial lift, completions, and production optimization.
• Experience with reservoir simulation, production forecasting, reserves evaluation, and field-performance analysis.
• Strong understanding of petroleum economics and investment evaluation.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards, regulatory requirements, and HSE principles.
• Experience with petroleum engineering software, reservoir simulation tools, production-optimization platforms, and data-analysis systems.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of upstream asset economics.
• Ability to manage multiple technical programs and priorities simultaneously.
• Highly analytical, technically rigorous, commercially minded, and results-oriented.
• Ability to work independently and effectively within a fully remote environment.
• Experience with UAE or wider GCC oil and gas assets is advantageous.